Deep in the Woods by Annabel Joseph

Author:Annabel Joseph
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Adult, Fiction
ISBN: 9781419928680
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2010-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

It was nearly Christmastime and Atlanta was experiencing an unusual cold snap.

Sophie was curled up on the sofa studying for exams, thinking that fleece blankets were the best thing ever invented. Although, who needed a blanket when you had a one-hundred-pound furry friend sprawled against the better part of your frame? She shifted, rearranging Cerby’s paw so it didn’t dig so badly into her rib cage. He looked up at her with a small snuffle.

“You silly mutt.” Sophie scratched him under his muzzle and then up around his ears. “I know you love me. You’re my own special boy, aren’t you?” At those words he pressed even closer to her, shimmying up to cover her face in canine kisses. Sophie laughed. “Yes, yes, I love you too. You’re the number one man in my life. Well, number two, after your wonderful owner. I’m trying to decide who’s pushier about getting in my space, him or you.” Cerby sighed and dropped his head, burrowing his muzzle under her chin. “Mm-hm. I think it’s you.” She rearranged him again and turned her attention back to her books. Dave was off for the day to one of the regional munches and some photography appointments afterward. At first Sophie felt pangs of jealousy to see him go off and photograph other kinky, beautiful—and available—women. She didn’t know why, it wasn’t like he didn’t photograph her too. Since that first day she’d posed for him, he’d taken hundreds of photos of her, disappearing for hours into his darkroom to develop the prints. Some silly, some serious, some intimate. She had long since overcome her shyness about posing nude. He photographed her naked a lot, but those were only for him, he told her. He collected all his many photos of her in archival-quality storage boxes. Archival-

quality. He had explained the term to her one afternoon in a voice heavy with gravity.

“Archival” means it will last a lifetime, Soph.

So over time, she relaxed about the fact that he photographed other women, just as she relaxed about worries of him pushing her too far. He was so careful with her, so attentive to her feelings and reactions in every situation. If only the nightmares would go away. But she wouldn’t think about that now, about the horrible dreams that always found her wandering, lost and confused, in the woods. And it was always the same stretch of woods, the same canopy of trees and dense bushes at the top of the hill on the trail she and Dave often hiked. Every time they went there she stood and tried to remember. Why, why do I keep dreaming of this place? Barry was never with her in her dreams. At least, she didn’t think he was, although there was some strange evil that seemed to hover in the air, smothering her with confusion and sadness. Even when she woke, the feeling lingered, a foggy sensation of mourning and an evil she couldn’t describe, even though she’d tried to explain it to Dave on many occasions.

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